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overenthusiastic

/əʊvɝənθuziˈæstɪk/adjective

overenthusiastic is spelled O-V-E-R-E-N-T-H-U-S-I-A-S-T-I-C: 16 letters. It appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, overenthusiastic means “excessively enthusiastic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in overenthusiastic?

Letters16: O-V-E-R-E-N-T-H-U-S-I-A-S-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 21 million words; the 138,319th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is overenthusiastic?

Overenthusiastic appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 138,319th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce overenthusiastic?

  • /əʊvɝənθuziˈæstɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-overenthusiastic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of overenthusiastic

  • more overenthusiastic comparative
  • most overenthusiastic superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does overenthusiastic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    excessively enthusiastic

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does overenthusiastic come from?

From over- + enthusiastic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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